Where to buy a Selectric?

[der Mouse]

>> Not, I daresay, when you have a paper form to fill out.  Then you
>> have all the registration issues of making sure each bit of text
>> prints out in the correct place on the page to fall into its field
>> on the form, without the benefit of being able to just adjust it
>> on-screen until it fits.

> You've obviously never used a formfiller.  You need one scratch copy
> of the form; stick it in the printer and the formfiller prints a grid
> out onto the page.  You can then use the grid numbers to tell the
> formfiller where the fields are.

> Perfect results every time, no scanner required.

Your printers must have more reproducible registration than mine. :-/

It also needs a scratch copy of the form, which isn't much use when you
have exactly one copy mailed to you by the relevant organization.

> What, you think I'm going to manually type hundreds of forms when all
> my information is in a database?  :-)

Oh, if you have hundreds of them, overhead operations get a lot cheaper.

The one time I wanted something of the sort, I ended up scanning the
form and digitally inserting the info into it before printing out the
resulting image.

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